Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 73min

The Daechuri Village incident, which was once the talk of the town, is being forgotten, but this documentary takes the viewer to the scene of action. Through the timeline of the event, the viewer understands why the inhabitants we...

Special Programs in Focus

• Romania
• 2008
• 90min

Ovidiu spends most of his day hanging around and occasionally helping his mother who runs a small kiosk. The only wish he dreams is to open up his own one. One day, Ivanov, a shady local businessman suggests huge dough for an erra...

Wide Angle

• Philippines
• 2008
• 20min

Six-year-old ANDONG is obsessed, and nothing, not even his mother’s disapproval and constant nagging can help curb his infatuation. When the love-of-his-life comes within reach, Andong is ecstatic. Now all he needs is twenty pes...

World Cinema

• Spain,Poland
• 2008
• 100min

The central relationship between Marcel and his grandfather Pascual in Freddy Mas Franqueza’s Awaking from a Dream is one that affects Marcel for his entire life. When his mother dumps him in a small Spanish town with his grandfat...

Special Programs in Focus

• India
• 2008
• 175min

A Bollywood-style superhero film. The concept of a superhero never deviates too much from its original Hollywood incarnation; look at Superman as an example. Rakesh Roshan also adds the unusual elements of Bollywood cinema and Hon...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2008
• 60min

A documentary about the comfort women, military sex slaves of Japanese soldiers. The film shows interviews of the victims that went through terrifying experiences and still live with the horrifying memories. The documentary introd...

Wide Angle

• United States
• 2008
• 9min

In this parable of urban life in its in-between spaces, two strangers?one a sensitive second generation teen, the other a stubborn Korean immigrant who claims to have been struck by lightening?work through issues of trust.

Wide Angle

• Slovenia,Hungary
• 2008
• 7min

The subject of I Know is watching. As a man completes a masterpiece a woman and a boy watch him, and God watches all three. Silence reigns as the camera illuminates the emotions of the three and demands viewers find their own sign...

Closing Film

• Korea
• 2008
• 113min

After his scandalous films, Yoon Jong-chan came back with another story aboutwounded souls. The director used a horror plot in his outstanding debut Sorum todescribe the mentality of people who have been hurt, and in his second fi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2008

All Around Us deserves attention in that it is the first feature film by Ryoske Hashikuchi in 7 years. He interpreted the identity and theme of queers through a more ordinary story than any other director. His much awaited new mov...